Biosystematics Staff - Allan Fife

Allan Fife

DDI: 03 321 9664
Phone: 03 321 9999

Fax: 03 321 9998
Email

Qualifications

BSc(Hons) Biology, Acadia University Canada
MSc Biology, Michigan University USA
PhD Botany, Michigan University USA

Research interests

• Moss Flora of New Zealand
• Temperate Southern Hemisphere Mosses and Bryogeography
• South Pacific Bryophytes

Current projects

• Key to the genera of New Zealand mosses
• Completion of the New Zealand Moss Flora (currently reviewing families Sematophyllaceae & Pterobryaceae)
• Description of a new species of Tasmanian Blindia

Recent publications

Fife, A.J.; Dalton, P.J. 2005: A reconsideration of Pleurophascum (Musci: Pleurophascaceae) and specific status for a New Zealand endemic, Pleurophascum ovalifolium stat. et nom. nov. New Zealand Journal of Botany 43: 871–884.

Glenny, D.; Fife, A.J. 2005: New Zealand’s threatened bryophyte flora. Australasian Bryological Newsletter 51: 6–10.

Fife, A.J. 2006: Bryological herbarium facilites and current research projects in New Zealand. National Science Museum Monographs (Tokyo) 34: 63–71.